(28) S'rî S'uka said: 'Thus being addressed Bali said with a smile
to Lord
Vâmana: 'Now
take from me what You want' and in order to give Him the land, he took
up his water pot [so as to
confirm his promise ritually with its water].

(21) Then
the
dwarf
form
of
the Unlimited Lord
began to expand most wondrously to the entire expanse of the threefold
of matter: He stretched Himself out in every direction over
all
the
land,
the
sky,
the
planetary
systems,
outer
space
and
the
seas and oceans where the birds and the
beasts, the humans, the gods and the saints were living.

(6-7) With water for the feet and for the
guests, flower garlands, all sorts of pulp to smear, fragrant incense
and lamps, fried rice, whole grains, fruits, roots and sprouts,
they offered their respects exclaiming 'Jaya, jaya' to the glory
of His actions, thereby dancing, singing and playing instruments as
vibrating conch shells and beating kettledrums.

(13) Indrasena [Bali], saw his grandfather,
the best of the auspicious ones, present there in all his glory:
with eyes as wide as lotus petals, beautifully built, dressed in
saffron and with a body as dark as collyrium and with long arms.

(32) Till then he may go and live in Sutala
[see 5.24:
18], the place created by [the heavenly architect]
Vis'vakarmâ, where it because of My supervision has been made
impossible for the inhabitants to suffer psychically or physically any
weariness, exhaustion or defeat.

(16) As
for the time and place,
the
person, the paraphernalia, [the practice of] the mantras and following
the principles, faults can be made, but these are all nullified by
regularly chanting Your glories in congregation [*].